Proliferum M: Reinventing growth media for the cultivated meat industry.

Proliferum M：重塑肉类养殖行业的生长介质。

• 批准号: 89176
• 金额: $ 14.28万
• 依托单位: MULTUS BIOTECHNOLOGY LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=89176
• 关键词: Proliferum; Reinventing; growth; media; cultivated

Current animal agriculture is highly unsustainable, it is one of the biggest contributors to climate change and has a significant resource uptake. Furthermore, global meat demand continues to increase at 3% per year.Current methods of meat production must be changed in order to prevent the impending global food crisis and hinder the further progression of climate change. The concept of reducing meat consumption in order to reduce the climate impact of agriculture has been around for a long time. Many people have decided to become flexitarian, vegetarian or vegan fueled by the success of plant-based meat replicas such as Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods. However, many people still struggle with eliminating meat from their diet because meat consumption is a part of their culture, and thus cannot easily be changed.Cultivated meat is the food of the future and companies are making this meat because it means we don't have to slaughter millions of animals every year to meet our growing demand for protein. It is also healthier, requiring no antibiotics and grown in a sterile environment without contaminants. But most importantly, cultivated meat is going to be one of the most powerful ways to mitigate the ongoing climate crisis. Growing meat this way releases up to 87% fewer greenhouse gases than conventional meat and uses just a fraction of the land and water.The key challenge holding back this entire industry is the cost of feeding the cells, where over 80% of production costs come from the growth media alone. Current solutions we're never designed for the food industry, for example, animal-derived blood serum is often used in biomedical research to grow cells, which goes totally against the ethical and sustainability aspirations of the cultivated meat industry.We are reinventing growth media specifically for the cultivated meat industry. During this Project, we will develop MediOP - a novel way to optimise growth media to achieve high performance across multiple stem cell types. MediOP will be used to develop Proliferum M - growth medium designed for growing cow and pig cells, which we test and validate with prospective customers.Through developing a replacement for expensive, animal-derived feed ingredients, our technology will shorten routes to market, lower entry barriers, and provide a collective benefit to the cultivated meat industry. But most importantly we will be accelerating the forefront of an industry that will replace the devastating impacts of livestock agriculture.

目前的畜牧业是高度不可持续的，它是造成气候变化的最大因素之一，占用大量资源。此外，全球肉类需求继续以每年3%的速度增长。为了防止迫在眉睫的全球粮食危机和阻止气候变化的进一步发展，必须改变目前的肉类生产方法。减少肉类消费以减少农业对气候的影响的概念已经存在很长时间了。受“超越肉类”和“不可能的食物”等植物性肉类复制品的成功推动，许多人决定成为弹性素食主义者、素食主义者或纯素食主义者。然而，许多人仍然在努力从他们的饮食中消除肉类，因为肉类消费是他们文化的一部分，因此不容易改变。人造肉是未来的食物，公司正在生产这种肉，因为这意味着我们不必每年屠杀数百万只动物来满足我们对蛋白质日益增长的需求。它也更健康，不需要抗生素，在没有污染物的无菌环境中生长。但最重要的是，养殖肉类将成为缓解当前气候危机的最有力方法之一。以这种方式种植肉类比传统肉类释放的温室气体少87%，而且只使用一小部分土地和水。阻碍整个行业发展的关键挑战是培养细胞的成本，其中超过80%的生产成本来自生长培养基。我们目前的解决方案从来都不是为食品工业设计的，例如，生物医学研究中经常使用动物来源的血清来培养细胞，这完全违背了培育肉类工业的道德和可持续性愿望。我们正在专门为养殖肉类行业重新发明生长培养基。在这个项目中，我们将开发MediOP——一种优化生长介质的新方法，以实现多种干细胞类型的高性能。MediOP将用于开发用于牛和猪细胞生长的Proliferum M培养基，我们将与潜在客户进行测试和验证。通过开发一种昂贵的动物源性饲料原料的替代品，我们的技术将缩短进入市场的路线，降低进入壁垒，并为养殖肉类行业提供集体利益。但最重要的是，我们将加速发展一个行业的前沿，取代畜牧业的破坏性影响。